Romance

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Romance (from Vulgar Latin rōmānicē, "in the Roman language", i.e., "Latin") may refer to:

Common meanings[]

  • Romance (love), emotional attraction towards another person and the courtship behaviors undertaken to express the feelings
  • Romance languages, a subgroup of the Italic languages
    • Romance studies, an academic discipline studying the languages, literatures, and cultures of areas that speak a Romance language

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Literary genres[]

  • Adventure tales
    • Gaslight romance, another name for gaslamp fantasy, featuring fantasy set at a time of approximately 19th-century technology
    • Planetary romance, a genre of science fiction consisting of adventure tales on exotic planets
    • Ruritanian romance, a genre of swashbuckling adventure novels, set in a fictional country, usually in Central or Eastern Europe
    • Scientific romance, an archaic term for the genre of fiction now commonly known as science fiction
  • Chivalric romance literature, a branch of medieval and medievalist literature
  • Literature of Romanticism, a movement from the late 18th century that broke away from neoclassicism and which emphasized nature, the imagination and emotions
  • Hellenistic romance, or Ancient Greek romance, a modern term for the genre of the five surviving Ancient Greek novels
  • Romance (prose fiction), a type of novel, especially, but not necessarily, an historical novel, and distinct from genre fiction love romances
  • Romance literature (disambiguation)
  • Romance novel, a genre of novel which emerged in the 20th century, directed at women readers, that focuses on romantic love, with many sub-genres:

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  • "Romance" (guitar piece), also known as "Romance Anónimo", a Spanish instrumental guitar piece of anonymous origin
  • "Romance", by Claude Debussy
  • "Romance", by Gordon Lightfoot from his 1983 album Salute
  • "Romance", by Mike Oldfield from his album Light + Shade
  • "Romance", the second movement of the suite Lieutenant Kijé (Op. 60) by Sergei Prokofiev
  • "Romance", by R.E.M., originally released on the soundtrack of the 1987 film Made in Heaven
  • "Romance", from the musical The Desert Song
  • Romance in C major, Op. 48, for violin and orchestra by Camille Saint-Saëns
  • Violin Romance No. 1 (Beethoven) in G major, Op. 40
  • Violin Romance No. 2 (Beethoven) in F major, Op. 50
  • "Romance" by Marc Ribot from his 1994 album Shrek
  • "Romance" (Buck-Tick song), 2005 single by Buck-Tick
  • "Romance" (Yoasobi song), 2021 single by Yoasobi

Other uses in music[]

  • Romance (music), a type of ballad or lyrical song
    • Romance (meter), a metric pattern found in Spanish ballads
    • Romancero, the corpus of such Spanish ballads, or a collection of them
    • Russian romance or Russian Gypsy song, a type of sentimental art song with hints of Gypsy influence that was developed in Imperial Russia
    • Scandinavian romanser, classical art songs, equivalent to the German Lied
  • Romance (band), rock band from London
  • Romance Tour (disambiguation)

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See also[]

  • A Fine Romance (disambiguation)
  • A Romance (disambiguation)
  • Romantic (disambiguation)
  • Romanticism
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